Originally Posted by
motz
Target has been pretty hesitant to expand in Metro Detroit. I can only think of a few brand new stores that weren't rebuilt locations [[12 and Dequindre for example). Walmart has a pretty amazing strategy of plopping a store down, waiting until the store's year over year revenue is starting to flatten out, then building a new store in a new development. They don't have any stores in Detroit, and have been slowing down their expansion as everyone realizes how terrible Walmart is.
Meijer is accessing an untapped market. If you don't think it's an untapped market, ask how many people from Detroit go to the Meijer or Target at that Fairlane shopping center. I've made trips out there more than a few times when I had a couple destinations to go to. I bet that Target and Walmart are closely watching Meijer's first Detroit store, but it will still take them like a decade to overcome the large-retail-in-Detroit stigma.